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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, “Fire in the cockpit.” Exactly 40 years later, the ...

Tragedy struck the heart of the American space programme 59 years ago when a routine pre-launch simulation at Cape Kennedy turned fatal. On January 27, 1967, a flash fire ignited inside the Apollo 1 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit." Exactly 40 years later, the ...